נכרי
Aramaic
Alternative forms
- ܢܟܪܝ — Syriac
Hebrew
Alternative forms
- נוכרי (excessive spelling)
Etymology
Compare Aramaic נוּכְרָי (nuḵrāy), Arabic نَكِرَ (nakira, “to not know”), Akkadian 𒈾𒅗𒊒𒌝 (nakārum, “to be an enemy or hostile, to oppose or be at war with a nation; to be alien, foreign or an outsider”).
Adjective
נָכְרִי • (nokhrí)
- foreign, alien
- Tanach, Exodus 2:22, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַתֵּלֶד בֵּן וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־שְׁמוֹ גֵּרְשֹׁם כִּי אָמַר גֵּר הָיִיתִי בְּאֶרֶץ נָכְרִיָּה׃
- vatéled bén vayikrá 'et-sh'mó ger'shóm kí 'amár gér hayíti b'érets nokhriyá.
wattḗleḏ bēn wayyiqrā ʾeṯ-šəmō gērəšōm kī ʾāmar gēr hāyī́ṯī bəʾéreṣ noḵriyyā. - And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: ‘I have been a stranger in a strange land.’
- vatéled bén vayikrá 'et-sh'mó ger'shóm kí 'amár gér hayíti b'érets nokhriyá.
- gentile, non-Jewish
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